The tones of Edong folk songs come from Edong speech, so it is the Edong dialect that determines the musical characteristics of Edong folk songs. The simple and plain Edong dialect makes the tone of Edong folk songs full of mountain wind and wild interest, and the aroma of soil. Unlike the folk songs in the north of China which are full of masculinity and the feminine folk songs in the south of China, Edong folk songs are a kind of Han folk music which is a kind of rigidity and softness, and the yin and yang are blended together.
"If the words are not enough, then the songs will be sung."
"If words are not enough, then sing them."
Our E'Dong ancestors sang at the top of their lungs, and the folk songs they **** created with them penetrate through space and time and have been passed down to this day. The song reproduces our ancestors' faces and smiles, unites their wisdom, and shows the folklore of that time. It used to bring infinite joy to the ancestors, and will also bring us incomparable surprise. It is a valuable folk culture and art heritage left by our ancestors to our children and grandchildren. We should cherish it and pass it on.
The folk songs of E'Dong include trumpets, mountain songs, field songs, pastoral songs, ditties, custom songs, lamp songs and so on. We focus on the mountain songs, field songs and pastoral songs in the folk songs of East China.
Shan songs
There are three kinds of lyrics in mountain songs: four-stanza style, five-stanza style, and fish-bite-tail style.
The four-sentence style is as follows: It's hard to start a good mountain song; it's hard for a carpenter to build a phoenix building; it's hard for a blacksmith to make an iron lion; and it's hard for a stonemason to make a stone hydrangea.
Five lines such as: early in the morning to get up a lot of things, first brush the stove and then wash the pot, the husband came back to eat, the small child woke up to shake the nest, how can I have the time to sing mountain songs. This is a unique sentence pattern in the mountain songs, it is in the four sentence pattern and followed by a sentence, breaking the symmetrical form of the four flat, forming a kind of asymmetrical rhythmic beauty. This is closely related to the dynamic labor life in the wilderness.
The fish bites the end of the style such as: June sun like oil frying, outside the sun of the female pretty lotus, love brother saw not pleased with yo, with the upper seven miles, the lower eight miles, seven, eight, one fifteen miles, to bring to the lotus dun, on the Solo tree, on the yar skimming, on the sesame leaves, on the fire dragon hill cool, like the weaving maiden and the cowherd boy. The length of the sentences in this form is uneven, and the sentences are connected with each other in a chain. This kind of sentence is like a string of fishes biting each other's tails, which is called "Fish Biting Tail" in the folklore of Edong.
There are three kinds of tunes in E'Dong mountain songs, which are positive plate mountain songs, slow plate mountain songs and fast plate mountain songs. Most of the lyrics in the Three Hundred and Sixty Tunes are sung in the key of the Shan Songs; the slow Shan Songs are generally used to sing lyrical lyrics. The fast-board songs are used to express bright and enthusiastic contents. The Xishui Zhudian area has a unique fast-pan mountain song, full of original musical beauty.
"The songs were originally left by the ancients to relieve the sorrows of future generations. If you don't sing the songs for three days, your three-year-old child will lose his head. This folk song says in layman's terms the function and role of music, which is to adjust the state of mind, dissolve bad emotions, make people's spirits happy and full. Historically, Confucius heard the shao music, the sound of the aftermath, March does not know the taste of meat, and then issued a "great, music teaching! which means that music education is great! In fact, a world without music is unimaginable. The first cry of every one of us from the mother's womb is a wonderful musical sound. The babbling that follows, and the innocent giggling, is a kind of original singing. In this sense, every child is a singer. But as they grow older, they are constrained by various reasons, and on the contrary, they gradually detach themselves from this beautiful sound. That's why our ancestors warned us that after three days of being away from the beautiful music, we would have gray hair! This is an exaggeration, but not without reason. Therefore, we should not lose the songs passed down by our ancestors, and we should think carefully about what we say.
The tune of this song gives a sense of far-reaching and vast space, as if the mountains, water, clouds and sky are all packed in it, and as long as you open your mouth and sing, it is as if you are soaring up to a high mountain, and you can hear the sound echoing in the valley for a long time, traveling through space and time, and through history. It evokes a certain kind of wonderful emotion deep in our hearts. In the 2006 Huanggang City Folk Song Competition, the singer who sang this song won the gold medal. People generally feel that this song gives people a kind of indefinable and indescribable touch. In fact, the mystery of this song mainly lies in the fact that it allows us contemporary people to have a spiritual dialog with our ancestors, so this kind of moving is a kind of root-searching complex from the depth of our lives.
This song is difficult to sing because of its free rhythm, so you can learn it under the guidance of a music teacher.
Field Songs
Eudong Mountain Songs also include field songs. Farmers engaged in heavy physical labor in the field for a long time, in order to relieve the monotony and tedium of field labor, refresh their minds and relieve their sorrows, field songs such as "rice-planting drums" and "rice-planting gripping songs" were produced. Later, gongs and drums were added, and when a group of people were working in the fields, a few people beat the gongs and drums on the bank of the fields, forming a rhythmic and pleasant labor scene. Gradually, this scene evolved into a collective ritual in which farmers prayed for a good harvest.
Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo's "Notes Zhilin" contains "I came to Huangzhou, heard the yellow people in February and March, are all living in groups of eulogies, the words are not decipherable, and the sound is not in the Rülü. But the sound, back and forth high and low, such as chicken singing," the charm of the custom, vividly recorded the picture of the Edong farmers singing field songs.
Eudong Luotian Fanfan cavity, Xishui Hoh vermicelli cavity is characterized as a chicken song, the tone of the high and thin long, so there is also a chicken song tone of the saying. The Flower Drum Opera in the East Hubei region is mainly developed from the field songs.
The field songs are divided into paddy field songs and dry field songs: the paddy field songs include rice-planting songs, rice-planting gripping songs, car water songs and rice-planting tugging songs; and the dry field songs include grass-gripping songs, grass-gripping drums and gongs, and playing single drums.
Pastoral Songs
The mountain people say that the mountain songs are shouted by the cowherd children, which is not unreasonable. Two opposite slopes, this side of the herdboy a whistle to play the past, the other side of the herdboy a whistle to play over, the two sides on the song. In order to make the other side audible, the voice should be prolonged, the tone of voice should be exaggerated, and the emotion should be amplified. In this way, the tone of voice becomes the pitch. If a little more embellished to become the tune of the mountain song. Because it is shouted, it determines the high-pitched and far-reaching style of Edong mountain songs.
The lyrics of the shepherd children's songs are in 360 tunes, and there are also improvised ones. The content of the performance of men and women in love, but also gags, laughing and cursing each other. The mountain people are very fond of listening to the shepherd boy song, the loud and rough song in the mountains reverberated and stirred, so that the mountain people's life is full of vitality and fun.
This song of the shepherd children is a mutual quiz of knowledge. One party sings: what man planted the Solo tree in the sky, what man opened the Yellow River underground, what man guarded the three passes outside, what man went to practice and never returned? The other side replied: The Solo Tree in the sky was planted by the Queen Mother, the Yellow River was opened by the Golden Horned Dragon, Yang Liu Lang guarded the three passes, and Han Xiang Zi went to practice and never returned. In ancient times, poor children did not have many opportunities to study, so they could rely on these lyrics to acquire various kinds of knowledge. This is the educational function of folk culture and art.
Eighty-eight lines
Eighty-eight lines is a kind of self-indulgent plaza art popularized in the area of E'dong, which is sung during the Lantern Festival, so it is also called Lantern Opera or Lantern Tune. Eighty-eight lines about the goblet in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing years, prevalent in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, to the present has more than two hundred years of history.
There are many trades in the 88 trades, including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, handicrafts, commercial activities and myths. Because of the complexity and diversity of the industry, so the name of the eighty-eight lines. Eighty-eight lines of rich repertoire, ideological content of healthy tunes melodious, fast-paced; performance is simple and natural, funny and humorous. Whether it is language, music, or performance, all have a strong local flavor and local characteristics.
The end of the Qing Dynasty, political corruption and darkness, the people's livelihood, the people were displaced, and did not want to sing and enjoy themselves. Coupled with the vast organization of the eighty-eight lines, the team is huge, manpower and financial resources can hardly cope with. Especially the rise of semi-professional and professional lamp play and flower-drum opera classes, almost replaced the eighty-eight rows, resulting in the eighty-eight rows once in the middle of the decline. In addition to Xinzhou, all other counties in East Hubei are basically extinct.
Xinzhou eighty-eight lines, the repertoire is divided into two categories, one is a one-sided play, that is, a one-legged play; a small play, that is, the folding play. There are more than 200 one-sided plays, common ones are "selling flowers", "selling tea", "picking tea tune", "cart tune", "ten plums", "playing the lotus", "picking toothworms" and so on. There are more than 150 small operas, such as Mending Bowls, Little Cowherd, Selling Cotton Yarn, Beating Bean Curd, Playing Flower Drums, Playing Haba, Eighteen Tugs of War, and Husband and Wife Watching Lanterns. Most of the small opera repertoires mentioned above have been absorbed by Chu Opera, Huangmei Opera and Dongluzi Flower Drums.
The existence of Xinzhou eighty-eight rows not only preserves for us an art variety of folk singing, but also, more importantly, it leaves a valuable legacy and reliable evidence for us to study and explore the relationship between the eighty-eight rows and the Chu Opera as well as the origin and evolution of the Chu Opera. Xinzhou County Cultural Center excavated and collated nearly one hundred scripts, and wrote papers such as "Eighty-eight rows preliminary exploration" and "Eighty-eight rows and Chu opera", which made a lot of work for exploring the artistic law of eighty-eight and returning Chu opera to the folk.
November 2, 2006, "Xinzhou eighty-eight rows" included in the "Wuhan City officially announced the first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list".
Eudong folk songs have a strong folklore and inclusiveness. After continuous development, in addition to the part of the inheritance of history, teaching knowledge of production and life, there are folk songs: wedding festivities have "spread the tent song", "crying marriage song", funeral affairs have "mourning song", Dragon Boat Festival have "dragon boat tune", to celebrate the harvest have "hit the bang song", the success of the construction of the house has "beam song", etc., mostly for a song of a crowd to help, the tunes of the style of the different.
Eudong folk songs were once brilliant. The coxswain and the slender man sang at the oar, and the woodcutter and the mountain girl sang songs to spread their love. Folk songs accompanied people through the difficult years, folk songs inspired people's resistance and struggle. E'Dong folk songs nourished Han Opera, Chu Opera and formed Huangmei Opera. During the period of land revolution, "August Laurel Blooms Everywhere", which was born in E'dong, became an immortal red classic.
During the Cultural Revolution, the folk songs of E'Dong were blocked as "four olds", and a number of excellent folk songs such as "Three Hundred and Sixty Tunes" were denounced as "obscene words and ditties", and the criticized folk singers were silenced, and the people talked about the folk songs and changed their color. After that, with the popularization of film and television and the influx of popular songs, the folk songs of Edong faded out of people's lives. Nowadays, the number of old people who can sing folk songs is decreasing year by year, and the young people are not familiar with folk songs, so the folk songs of Edong are on the verge of being lost, and the inheritance and development have become a pressing task.
It is true that due to the limitations of the times, the lyrics of a lot of folk songs are both elegant and vulgar, but also good and bad **** exist, some of them are relatively vulgar, and even feudal dregs, etc. But the flaws do not cover the faults. But the flaws do not cover up the faults, it is its own distinctive characteristics of the fine traditions of the culture of the Edong region for thousands of years, branded with a deep historical imprint, has a high historical and social value. At the same time, the cultural value of these folk songs is not to be underestimated, and it is not too much to say that it is a treasure house of literature and language arts. There is every reason to believe that people can use folk songs to reflect and refract the countryside of the countryside, the countryside, the countryside, the countryside, the countryside, casting a wonderful local teaching materials, to inspire people to love their hometowns, the enthusiasm to build their hometowns.
Inheritance of the folk songs of East China
Xinzhou was known as the old state, originally belonged to the Huangzhou. 1951 Xinzhou County, under the Huanggang Office, in August 1983, Xinzhou County was transferred to the jurisdiction of the city of Wuhan, and then changed to Xinzhou District. Although Xinzhou folk song has its own unique regional characteristics and human characteristics, but overall, Xinzhou folk song is still classified as a series of folk songs in the East, the inheritance of the East folk song, Xinzhou people have made painstaking efforts.
In recent years, Xinzhou District publicity and cultural departments relying on the rich folk cultural resources, innovative carriers, building platforms, the Edong folk songs into Xinzhou open to the outside world as a bright business card, tourism and economic cultural brands.
The late 1970s and early 1980s, Xinzhou County Cultural Hall organization Ye Wenfang, Zhang Youde, Ma Liuchun collection and arrangement of Xinzhou folk songs, over a period of three years, edited the "collection of folk songs in Xinzhou," which has left us a number of valuable information.
Liu Yanting, a farmer in the old street, collected and organized more than 200 folk songs and composed more than 30 new folk songs in thirty years. The years were hard, life was poor, he did not change his obsession, tireless pursuit. He created the "Daoguan River Love Song", as Xinzhou folk songs to retain the repertoire, sung in Xinzhou for five years, won the seventh Wuhan "Golden Autumn Song Yang" rural arts and cultural performances of the first prize, in June 2008 in the CCTV "Passion Plaza" performance.
In recent years, Xinzhou folk song heritage and creative team team continues to grow, a number of cadres and teachers and farmers to join the ranks of songwriters. Huang Xiaoya, director of the Committee of Culture and History of the CPPCC, created the "beautiful Yangluo Port", Li Zhongping, director of the Office of Civilization of the district, created "our Xinzhou", retired cadres Ye Wenfang created the song "home in Xinzhou", which praises the great achievements of the reform and opening up and the construction of the development of the Xinzhou; Zhao Jianjun, a teacher, created "Road", praising the fruitful results of the construction of the new countryside; Mei Shengping, a teacher, created the "Man" praises the hard-working and brave people of the new island. The people of Xinzhou were praised for their hard work and bravery. A large number of new folk songs, including "Ten Persuasions for My Brother," "Flat Stretcher," and "Push Cart Ballad," have also emerged.
The inheritance of E'Dong folk songs in Xinzhou has been emphasized by all walks of life and attracted the attention of provincial and municipal media. Hubei Daily" "sixty-year-old Xinzhou mountain song king seeks division of the Provincial Arts Museum", "Yangtze River Daily" "counterpart of granny" than granny like granny "", "Yangtze River Business Daily" "love song obsessed with Hubei folk song 30 years of collection of more than 400", "Wu Huang netizens to join hands to create" Lift the water ballad "", "Academy of Social Sciences experts to investigate the folk art of Xinzhou "," Chutian Metropolis Daily "" crop man's dream of music "," village "Mei Lanfang" "," Chutian Jinpao "" country bumpkin "art group singing into the CCTV ", are with A large number of pages reported the Xinzhou people inherit the folk songs of E'dong, carry forward the exploration and efforts of regional culture.
Since 2005, Xinzhou **** organized three sessions of "Double Hundred Cup" Literary Competition, three sessions of the "Folk Art Festival", with the theme of E'dong Folk Songs and E'dong Folk Customs performances, E'dong Folk Songs and Xinzhou's original songs as a mandatory repertoire.
Remodeling of the old street flower culture festival. Mobilizing folk art teams, setting up a number of booths, performing Edong folk songs and folklore programs, displaying regional culture in the folk economic and trade events, fully highlighting the cultural connotation of the old festival.
In June 2008, Xinzhou held a "Construction Workers Festival" opportunity to invite CCTV to Xinzhou to record "Passion Square" program, rehearsed songs and dances "Dao Guan River Love Song", "Home in Xinzhou" and "Man". CCTV platform, the Edong folk songs and Xinzhou original songs to the country.
October 2009, Wuhan TV "Record Wuhan" program, filmed reflecting the inheritance of E'Dong folk songs in Xinzhou 8 episodes of the documentary "for the farmers and the song", November 3 from the Wuhan Television Channel 6 continuous broadcast. The movie recorded the hard work of Xinzhou people to inherit the folk songs of East China, praised the unremitting pursuit of Xinzhou people to promote regional culture, which is real and touching, and the social impact is very strong. With the promotion of the network and media publicity, Edong folk songs also began to stride out of Xinzhou, out of Wuhan, towards the country.
The Yangtze River wave pushes the wave, and the Yangtze River is ten thousand miles long.
There is a Yangluo Port on the Yangtze River
Romantic strings on the river, playing a water town
Tender lake and mountains, describing a dream water town
Wuhu bright moonlight night, the embankment of the willows long
Yangluo Port, a good scenery.
Yangluo Harbor, beautiful Yangluo Harbor
Yangluo Harbor, the heart of the Yangluo Harbor
That's where I put my hopes
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This is the Xinzhou District to the community to recommend the "red song singing